All You Need Is An Email

I recently learned about a new site that allows you to quickly find all online services and social networks a person uses with just their email.  This is a great idea and executed simply and cleanly by Flowtown.  I have just started playing with the site but have already been shocked to discover:

My Pandora account [...]

A new site that helps you find reasons to reach out

When searching for ‘personal CRM’ a few months back, I came across Gist, a company still in beta.  Gist brings you news feeds from multiple different sources about both your contacts and contact’s companies.  I was immediately intrigued by the potential of the site to help create excuses to reach out to my network.  I [...]

Soocial, Soo Close but Soo Dangerous

If you are like me, you have your contacts in a number of different locations.  Given how much I use Google voice and how bad Google contacts management features are (Google, please fix this), I spent a long time on the web recently searching for a tool too allow me to easily upload my contacts [...]

Xobni – Understanding Your Inbox

Xobni is a great tool for empowering outlook and allowing you to know your contacts better.  I have used Xobni for the past year (on and off, see below) and find its search functionality and ability to organize emails makes me much more efficient at managing both my inbox and also past dialogs with contacts.  [...]

I don’t have the time to network, do I?

A couple people have written asking how they can find the time to network when they have a full-time job.   Unless you have a job that you feel like you will be in for the rest of your career, I would challenge you and ask “How can you afford not to?”
Most people see networking as [...]

Make it Easier for Others to Meet You

For those of you with outlook, you can share your calendar (not the details but just the blocked times) with contacts through Google Calendar.  I don’t share my calendar with every contact but for those who I have developed a strong relationship and am meeting with frequently, I find it an incredibly useful tool.    This [...]

Simplify Your Contact Info

Google Voice is a great tool that I have been using since mid 2009.  While it is still in Beta, I highly recommend everyone get an account and start using it.  The key benefits I have found from Google Voice include
1) A single number to make it easier and simpler for contacts to reach you [...]

How to Manage 1,000+ Contacts

A few years back, a friend and I had a good chuckle at a job posting that included the requirement that you have at least 1,000 active business contacts.  At the time, that number seemed silly but I now realize that the job posting was using that number as a proxy to find people that [...]